Mostly About Organized Crime

04/03/2015

24 suspected gangbangers from Nuestra Familia were busted last month in San Jose, CA for "allegedly selling drugs and shaking down merchants for protection money" as reported by David Louie for KGO: "The crimes were happening in the streets of San Jose and the orders were coming from 400 miles north from behind the walls at Pelican Bay State Prison. That's where three so-called generals of the Nuestra Familia gang called the shots."

10/16/2011

*** Multiple agency task force rounds up more than 100 suspected degenerates in several counties thoughout California including 51 reputed members of Norteños gangs which are controlled by the Nuestra Familia prison gang: "through links to drug trafficking organizations in Mexico, these gangs move drugs, guns and people across the border and into communities throughout California."

*** The feds bust six suspected members of the Texas Mexican Mafia including its reputed state operations leader on heroin trafficking charges.

*** The feds bring a racketeering indictment against 35 reputed Bloods members thoughout Maryland: "those indicted are accused of at least one murder in Baltimore, an attempted murder in Wicomico County, a home invasion in Howard County, a kidnapping in Frederick, and witness intimidation in Allegany County, among a host of other alleged crimes."

"What we're seeing is that highly sophisticated gangs, operating out of the prison system or from cartels in Mexico, are shot-calling, and then farming out the work to local street gangs in California, like the Norteños," state Attorney General Kamala Harris said recently by phone from Los Banos, the scene of a large anti-gang operation June 7. Increased cooperation across borders and among organized crime syndicates threatens California in new ways, officials say. As evidence, they point to the beginnings of a spillover into this country of the sort of violence that has pitted cartels against the Mexican government and army.

Unfortunately, President Obama insists there is no evidence of spillover violence to which his administration must respond. Of course, with all his time on the greens, what the heck does the President really know about what's happening on the streets?

And the cartels and the gangs aren't simply partners in their bread-and-butter drug trade; rather, they are a full service organized crime joint venture: "They dabble in a multitude of transjurisdictional crimes, including weapons and the illegal trade of human beings, including children for the sex trade."